New Entries in the CoasterBuzz Top 100

I feel like the dopey turtle show guy when I say this but here I go. Take away the licensed music and you have Space Mountain or Rock N’ Roller Coaster.

It’s real smooth. Like impressively so. The ride system could have been used for so much more though.

Yeah. I agree with that. I have only ridden it once, so I have been trying to reserve judgement. But as far as Disney rides go, give me Tower of Terror, Rock N Roller Coaster, Disneyland Space Mountain or California Screamin' any day.

The dopey turtle show guy hates fun things. 🙂

There isn't anything that I can think of that feels like this ride. I mean, it's a roller coaster, yes, but the positioning of the car relative to the track orientation creates sensations you can't otherwise achieve. The last time I felt something different was on a wing coaster, and honestly that wasn't entirely unlike an inverted ride.

I love RnRC (mostly because of the licensed music) and Space Mountain, so that's not a bad thing. It's not the most thrilling coaster, sensation-wise, but it's just fun. The characters, the scenes, and the music all add up to make it a great experience, not just a great ride. On our last ride, we got stopped before the second launch and the rest of the audio played out and then we finished the second half of the track in near silence. It was significantly worse.

tl;dr - Disney coasters are pretty mediocre as just coasters. But the total experience with music, story, and theming make them way more than the sum of the parts.

Disney coasters after a block stop without proper audio and lighting as well as other missing effects > Rip Ride Rockit

Getting strip searched by Universal security is more thrilling than RRR.

Still waiting on Pantheon to crack the list. How does the number of people ranking rides compare to say a decade ago? I am not sure how site traffic compares over the years.

Traffic doesn't matter. There are votes there from people who are no longer with us. The challenge is the number of people who have been on it. Looking at the data, it's close.

I just checked and I never added it to my track record. Added and rated...

Does the threshold of "experienced riders" get updated as people become inactive?

No. They don't become less experienced because they're inactive.

I guess my question was more, “If a ride needs to be ridden by half the experienced riders, is it relevant that some experienced riders aren’t updating their track records anymore?”

I guess that's a philosophical question. We could ask the same question about whether or not a ride still counts after it's removed. All we can really measure is the ratings of the experienced users at any given snapshot in time. If Cedar Point never opened again, no one would get to ride Steel Vengeance anymore. Would it still be a top ride? Philosophically, I would say yes.

If a bear ****s in the woods, would anyone hear it? If they needed a hotel, wouldn't they already have one?

I agree with that. Both sides of Dragons from IoA are still on the list, right? Just because they were removed doesn't mean they aren't still among the 100 best rides the group has ridden.

Jeff:

If a bear ****s in the woods, would anyone hear it?

Unless it's deaf, the bear.

I guess from a purely philosophical standpoint, I can some dystopian future where half the experienced riders are no longer updating their track records and new coasters can't enter the list at all.

Both sides of Dragons from IoA are still on the list, right?

Ummmm.......who wants to break the news gently?

We've started to lose hypercoasters, which boggles the mind of 9 year old me.

I'm not sure how I'll take it when Twister drops off in the next season or two.

Yeah, Volcano is still sitting there at #60. So until 40 more rides exceed its ranking, it will probably stay on the list indefinitely.

ApolloAndy:

...new coasters can't enter the list at all.

Sure they can, if they're good enough. Right now a 3.9 will get you there.

This is independent of getting on the list because of "good enough" or "not good enough". The "concern" is they can't enter the list because not enough of the experienced riders rate them (because the experienced riders are no longer active).